Resilience and well-being amongst seafarers: cross-sectional study of crew across 51 ships

Doyle, Niamh; MacLachlan, Malcolm; Fraser, Alistair; Stilz, Ralf; Lismont, Karlien; Cox, Henriette; McVeigh, Joanne

doi:10.1007/s00420-015-1063-9

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“…Many stressors facing seafarers are chronic and prolonged exposure to the seafaring environment has been suggested to lead to greater stress [9], [11]. A case can therefore be made for the seafarers' levels of fatigue to increase during their time at sea.…”

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“…According to Doyle et al [9], chronic work stressors can be defined as “long-lasting events or characteristics of the environment, which place individuals at risk of experiencing stress and reduce well-being” (Introduction, paragraph 2). As it has also been suggested that such a prolonged exposure to the seafaring environment will lead to greater stress [10], [11], one aim of this study was therefore to explore how duration of work period at sea influences the fatigue and sleep quality of seafarers.…”

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“…It is plausible that previous experience with working in ICEs could familiarize individuals with what to expect in terms of stressors in the environment, and in extension equip them with adequate coping strategies [9]. One could therefore conceive of seafarers with greater experience developing strategies for dealing with stress over long voyages.…”

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Sleep and Fatigue Among Seafarers: The Role of Environmental Stressors, Duration at Sea and Psychological Capital

Hystad

Eid

2016

Safety and Health at Work

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BackgroundSeafaring is an inherently stressful environment. Because working time and leisure time is spent in the same confined environment for a prolonged period of time, many stressors present in seafaring can also be conceived of as chronic. We explored the effects of duration at sea, seafaring experience, environmental stressors, and psychological capital (PsyCap) on the sleep quality and fatigue of seafarers. PsyCap is a construct that draws upon ideas from positive psychology and positive organizational behavior, and is intended to capture an individual's psychological capacities that can be developed and utilized for performance improvements.MethodsWe collected survey data from a sample of seafarers working in the offshore re-supply industry (n = 402) and a sample of seafarers working on board combined passenger and cargo ships (n = 340).ResultsPsyCap emerged as a robust predictor with statistically significant relations to fatigue and sleep quality in both samples. PsyCap also interacted with duration at sea in explaining fatigue in seafarers working on board the passenger and cargo ships. Seafarers on passenger and cargo ships also reported significantly higher levels of fatigue than those working in the offshore re-supply industry.ConclusionCoupled with emerging research showing that PsyCap is trainable, our results suggest that maritime organizations could have much to gain by being cognizant of and developing routines for continually developing the PsyCap of their employees.

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“…generalisability of our findings, we consider it an advantage which improves the internal validity, since we have avoided possible confounding effects of culture/nation, rank, and type of maritime activity. Further, we consider our total N to be relatively large, while considering seafarers a hard-to-reach population (7). Finally, we included only those seafarers who had been with the same company for a minimum of two years, since we believed that some duration was needed to be able to test the effects of work characteristics on the outcome measures.…”

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“…One inherent characteristic of seafaring is living and working in an isolated confined environment, away from home, with no opportunity to leave the workplace for a specified time period, which may act as a chronic work stressor (7). Indeed, long-term separation from home and family and social isolation on board are among the most frequently cited psychosocial stressors in seafaring (1,6,(8)(9)(10)(11).…”

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Testing the associations between different aspects of seafarers’ employment contract and on-board internet access and their job and life satisfaction and health

Slišković

Penezić

2016

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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The aim of this study was to test for associations between different aspects of contract and on-board internet access and seafarers' satisfaction and health. Altogether 298 Croatian seafarers, all officers, employed on cargo ships, with a minimum work experience of two years with their current shipping company, participated in an online survey. The questionnaire included sociodemographic items, questions relating to their employment contract and internet access, and measures of job satisfaction, life satisfaction, mental health, and gastrointestinal and cardiovascular symptoms. Their job-and lifesatisfaction levels were higher for shorter duration on board, favourable ratio of work to non-work days, and compliance with the employment contract regarding the changes to work and non-work days. Mental health differed likewise but only in relation to two aspects of the contract: on-board duration and compliance with the contract. The level of gastrointestinal symptoms was lower in cases of shorter on-board duration and compliance with the contract, and in seafarers who have free, unlimited internet access on board. Lower level of cardiovascular symptoms was found in seafarers with free, unlimited internet access on board. Our findings suggest that in promoting satisfaction and health in seafaring, attention should be given to reducing on-board duration, compliance with the contract, and internet accessibility on board. KEY WORDS: compliance with contract; gastrointestinal and cardiovascular symptoms; isolated working environment; mental health; on-board duration; ratio of work to non-work daysSeafarers face many stressors, risks and challenges (1, 2) which may have impact on their physical and mental health. However, studies relating to health, morbidity, and mortality in seafarers [e.g. gastrointestinal disease mortality (3); cardiovascular disease mortality (4)] are often confounded by the "healthy worker effect", which is explained by self-selection and adaptation: seafarers who cannot adapt to work on board, as well as those who suffer from the effects of occupational stressors, leave the occupation. Still, Oldenburg et al. (5) show that, even if this effect is considered, it appears that cardiac risk factors occur slightly more frequently in seafarers than in the general population. Furthermore, data on suicides in seafarers (6) show that the mental health of seafarers in many cases continues to be very poor and often fatal.

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Psychological Stress and Mental Health Among Seafarers

Pallotta

Battineni

Amenta

2022

Proceedings of Data Analytics and Management

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Resilience and well-being amongst seafarers: cross-sectional study of crew across 51 ships

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Sleep and Fatigue Among Seafarers: The Role of Environmental Stressors, Duration at Sea and Psychological Capital

Sleep and Fatigue Among Seafarers: The Role of Environmental Stressors, Duration at Sea and Psychological Capital

Testing the associations between different aspects of seafarers’ employment contract and on-board internet access and their job and life satisfaction and health

Psychological Stress and Mental Health Among Seafarers

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